Chapter 2512 If I Were Given a Ray of Light (End of This Volume)

Chapter 2513 If I Had a Ray of Light (End of this Volume)

"This cat has bright fur and a gentle personality. It doesn't look like a wild cat but a lost pet cat."

Xia De suddenly said, and then explained to the doctor who looked at him in surprise:

"My most common commission is to find lost pet cats. I am very familiar with this."

As he said this, Xia De waved to the blue cat that was scared away by Xiaomia but still looked back every few steps:

"Do you remember where you got lost?"

Then the doctor was even more surprised to find that the blue round-faced cat actually turned around and looked at Xia De, and then walked back to the sound of Xiaomia's "meow~meow~" when Xia De picked up Xiaomia again.

Afterwards, Xia De and the doctor took some effort to find the middle-aged woman who lost the cat in the south of Yanhe Street. But she didn't look very kind, or maybe she was worried that Shade and Dr. Schneider would ask her for a bribe, so she picked up the cat she called "Little Harry", thanked them quietly and left quickly.

Xia De was sure that he had found the right cat owner, and he didn't care much about the cat owner's attitude:

"Although her attitude was not very good, at least she thanked her."

"Yes, being polite is very good."

The doctor said, and teased Xia De:

"Do you often do good things like this when you walk on the street?"

"Don't make me sound like a kind person, I just have time now."

The two looked at the Yuewan Bridge, which was already close at hand, and the doctor sighed again:

"I noticed this bridge when I first arrived here. It is a double-tower bridge. Even Tobysk doesn't have such a building. I think it will be magnificent after it is built."

"The river flowing through Tobysk is not as wide as the Taton River. There is no need to build such a bridge."

"Detective, do you want to go up with me to take a look? Although there are workers, it should be okay to cover it up with illusion."

Now that the fog has dissipated, the workers have returned to the unfinished Yuewan Bridge to continue construction.

Looking around, the huge bridge frame stands on the river, surrounded by scaffolding, like a metal forest.

Now the bridge has not been closed yet, and construction is going on on both sides at the same time. Between the dense scaffolding, there is only a safety rope to ensure the safety of the workers who are working hundreds of meters above the river.

Romantic people would probably describe this scene with sentences like "they are dancing between steel", but the doctor standing on the bridge head and looking up asked:

"It's a big project. This will become a new landmark building in Yuewan, and it will even be on stamps and postcards. Detective, are these workers paid well?"

"Not particularly high. It is said that some of these workers have been owed wages for several months. The foreman said that they will be paid after the work is completed to prevent them from quitting halfway. If it weren't for the heavy fog in Yuewan some time ago, maybe we can see the scene of the strike now."

The two stepped onto the bridge deck under construction. The bridge head has actually been completed, but because of the transportation of construction materials, there is a thick layer of dust on the ground.

As expected, no one paid attention to the two of them, so they walked up the elevator connecting the upper and lower bridge decks as if no one was around. The doctor was amazed at this great project:

"But I heard from the locals that the Yuewan City Hall has invested a lot of money in this Yuewan Bridge."

The elevator rumbled and took the two people up. This steam-powered elevator was not as effective as the "mystical elevator" in Count Dalmanin's mansion and the mountaintop shrine:

"Doctor, this is not a lot of money, but a considerable amount of money."

Shad corrected, stretching out his palm and gesturing a number:

"The bridge is not yet fully completed, and for various reasons, the numbers speculated in the newspaper are not very accurate. But when the bridge is finally completed, the total cost will not be less than this number."

The two people spoke in Delarion, so Dr. Schneider also knew that Shad was gesturing gold pounds instead of Carsonrick's crowns:

"1.4 million gold pounds ? "

The doctor was surprised, while Shade looked at the distant scenery of Yuewan City becoming clearer during the ascent:

"You know I have special information channels, and this number should be relatively accurate. Of course, this is the total cost, which includes the part that was embezzled and misappropriated. In fact, the real cost should not be so much."

After saying that, he laughed again:

"Of course, for such a large project, embezzlement is one of the costs that everyone understands. After all, no one expects that no one will secretly reach out for such a project."

"Tsk tsk, 1.4 million gold pounds, this number I haven't even imagined. Most of the real estate in St. Teresa's Square can be equivalent to the cost of this tower bridge."

The doctor was amazed at this:

"I only heard that the local blood-sucking species are not small, and it seems that other "vampires" are also not small. 1.4 million, but considering the role and significance of the Yuewan Bridge, this money is actually worth spending."

After a clang, the elevator brought the two to the upper bridge deck. The upper deck is under construction at a slower pace, so various engineering materials such as steel pipes, clips, ropes, hanging baskets, etc. are placed on the bridge deck. The dense scaffolding on both sides casts spider-web-like shadows on the bridge deck.

Even a few hundred meters above the ground, it is not quiet. Not to mention the bustling banks of the Taton River, even the sound of workers during construction is noisy enough.

But Shade and Doctor Schneider didn't hate such sounds. Compared with the whispers of those evil things, or the unexplainable whispers, the sounds at this time were really soothing.

The sun was shining brightly, and citizen life was recovering from the catastrophe. Time will erase everything, and the stable days after the thrilling war are even more cherished.

"I heard"

Shade and the doctor walked around the workers who were squatting on the bridge and binding steel parts. The latter was stooped and had black oil stains all over his clothes. The oil used to maintain steel products has a strong smell.

"Yuewan City is planning to use the completion of the Yuewan Bridge in the second half of the year to celebrate Yuewan's escape from this disaster. But that should be this winter, and the city will be very different by then."

"Winter, another year has passed in a blink of an eye. I don't know if I'm getting older, but I always feel like time is passing faster and faster lately."

The doctor said with a smile, and Shade raised his feet to cross the rope on the bridge:

"You are now in your prime; the priest was in his old age."

Although the construction progress of the upper bridge deck is not as good as that of the lower deck, the extension distance of the upper deck to the center of the river is about the same as that of the lower deck. The two of them soon arrived at the end of the bridge, standing on this high point and looking at the city of wealth under the clear sky from a broad perspective.

Although the height here is not as high as Belindel Big Ben, it is still high enough to overlook Little Half Moon Bay. The weather is very good, and the summer breeze blowing here is refreshing. The temperature this summer is on the low side, and even the afternoon sun is not very harsh and dazzling.

They stood here looking at the scenery together, and no one spoke immediately. Although foreigners have been to this bridge several times, this is the first time they just stand here and look at the scenery like this.

Under the bridge are the rapid rivers and cargo ships passing by. In front of it are densely populated but different urban buildings, including three-story apartments, two-story shops facing the street, a grand bank at the corner of the street, or a block of buildings. Temporary vendors in the alley.

Citizens walked through the street like ants. The more conspicuous carriage turned into another road at the corner and stopped towards the street to avoid the private carriage with the noble family crest coming from the other side.

The warm wind blows on the cheeks. Although the outsiders have been here for more than two months, they have never felt the vitality of this city so clearly.

Probably, he had been walking too fast before.

"City of Fortune"

He heard the doctor beside him sighing like this, so he asked:

"Doctor, do you want to hear my story? I have done a lot of great things locally in the past few months."

"Then let's talk about it. I guess most of the things in this city in the past two months have to do with you."

Although the position where they are standing is the farthest point of the bridge deck, two steel plates that are not in contact with each other and are not very wide extend forward from here.

Shade and the doctor continued to move forward. To ordinary people, this kind of behavior, which was like walking on a single-plank bridge at a height of 100 meters, might only be done by circus acrobats, but it was nothing to Shade and the doctor.

A heavy cable was tied under the steel plate. The two of them stopped at the end of the steel plate protruding from the bridge deck. The doctor held his hands on his chest and continued to look at the city. Shade sat down directly, letting his feet hang in the air and looking to the right. side of the dock area.

"The story begins when I came to Yuewan to look for a relic. Then I met old friends I hadn't seen for a long time, and also made new friends."

He omitted some sensitive events and did not disclose specific information about Mr. Albert and Mr. Bernhardt. It took him half an hour to briefly tell the story of 1854, which Mr. Bernhardt called the "Legend of Moon Bay." Summer story.

The doctor stood on the edge of the steel plate and listened carefully. It was not until Shade finished speaking and sighed that he made his own comment:

"So, real stories are sometimes more exciting than those chivalry novels. Detective, most people in this city don't know you, but you did save most people in this city.

He circled among the seven major families, reconciled the conflicts between vampires and humans, tracked down dragons and madmen in the dark, and helped those in need. I think someone will always remember what you did. "

Shade touched the cat on his lap with one hand to prevent it from falling, and supported the steel plate with one hand on his side. He smiled and shook his head in the sun:

"I don't do these things to be remembered by others, but it's finally over. If I hadn't talked to you about this, I wouldn't have realized how busy I was this summer."

After a pause, he stared at the city on the other side of the river:

"Doctor, in your opinion, what is justice?"

Bill Schneider looked down at him:

"Look what you said, detective, aren't you the one who is just?"

"I don't want you to praise me, I'm really asking this question."

The doctor thought for a moment:

"Justice, this is really a profound question. Detective, I can't tell you the answer. Some people spend their whole lives searching for the answer, only to discover in the end that the process of their search itself is the answer."

Although this time he did not tell the unique truth like before, Shade was not disappointed:

"Some people are willing to sacrifice themselves, some people want to save others, some people try to take revenge, and some people just can't stand things that don't go their way. Justice, justice is pale and humble, justice is powerful but cruel."

"Don't you understand this very well?"

The doctor asked with a smile:

"And I have already given you the answer: the process of pursuing justice itself is justice. Detective, look, the story you just told is not the story of a stranger bringing justice to this city?"

"Doctor, I told you not to praise me."

Dr. Schneider turned his eyes away from Xia De and continued to look at the prosperous Moon Bay scenery on both sides of the river bank under the sun:

"I am not praising you. Look at what is in front of you, detective, this scene is your justice."

The huge tower bridge surrounded by dense scaffolding is full of workers, and the noisy sound comes from both sides of the river bank under the bridge. The city is gray and warm yellow under the sun, like a lightly colored oil painting, and like a fine brush painting with fine brushstrokes.

The ant-like people injected endless vitality into the city. The wind blew up the newspapers with Margaret's photo. The lampposts along the riverbank still had the wanted notices of cultists issued by the church and the city hall.

Mia lay lazily on Shade's legs, and the sun made the cat's hair emit golden light.

The sun was just right and the warm wind was pleasant. The blue-eyed psychiatrist crossed his arms and looked into the distance. The stranger touched the cat on his legs while looking at the city he and his friends saved.

The wind seemed to drag the light and shadow on the two people backwards, and the flying birds hovering above flew across the sky and flew away. The broken bridge in the building perfectly blended with the riverside scenery of the prosperous steam city. The sparkling waves on the river surface under the feet and the tiles reflecting the sun on the houses lined up one after another complemented each other.

The warm wind slowly drifted under the blue sky with clouds, and the petals blown by the wind also floated over Shade's cheek and flew to the unknown distance.

The vivid scene under the sun was so vivid that Shade felt that he really understood what Mr. Bernhardt said when he said goodbye, and understood why he was so reluctant to let the summer of 1854 end like this.

The soft breeze brushed across his cheeks, and he took a deep breath. The warm air made his whole body feel full and comfortable. A gentle smile sounded in his ears, as illusory as the rainbow light and shadow under the sun, and as real as the satisfaction that emerged at this moment:

[Sixth Era, Universal Calendar 1854, Flowery Month. The severe cold dispelled the warm wind of summer, and the overly dazzling light was not always beneficial. The prophecy sent by the ancient gods from the old days destroyed the ancient city, and the hope obtained by the new gods from death wrote a new ending. The gluttonous dragon danced in the sky, and the bloodthirsty beast lurked in the shadows. When you and they drew the sword of justice and pointed it at the powerful enemy, the golden thunder struck, and the eternal light shone, the strangers who sacrificed to the ancient silver moon, transcending time and fate, civilization and years will record everything. May you run with this light in the world. 】

Shad listened attentively. He felt that until this moment, all the adventure stories of Yuewan had finally turned the last page.

This scene under the sun was so beautiful. Although there were sacrifices and sadness, he thought this was the best ending that this story could have.

Dr. Schneider, who was standing by, certainly didn't know what Shad was thinking. He just stretched out his right hand and turned his palm up, as if he wanted to use this hand to catch a ray of light:

"Detective, although I just said that everyone's justice is different, are you willing to listen to what I think is justice? Talk about this matter from the perspective of a psychologist."

"Of course."

He sat there and gently stroked Miss Gold's cat.

"Detective, my justice is to bring a ray of light to every patient whose heart is shrouded in shadow."

Speaking of his job, Dr. Schneider is quite serious:

"Compared to what you do, this is of course insignificant. But these two things are actually similar. We can't solve every trouble in this world, and sometimes we can't even solve the troubles we encounter.

But even so, it is still valuable to make yourself a ray of light to illuminate a dark soul and a dark life."

"That sounds amazing."

Shad praised, and the doctor waved his hand that "captured" the light forward, as if to encompass the entire Moon Bay:

"You can't save everyone, detective, and you can't control Let everyone do what you think they should do.

So, give them a ray of light or make yourself that ray of light, let them see the hope of life and the future, and then people will follow that ray of light. It was like this before, and it is like this now.

I can open up those troubled hearts, and you can point the way for people's lives. In my opinion, justice is probably this kind of thing. Don't think too much of yourself, but don't think you can't do anything. Look, you have become that ray of light. Now it is not only the sun that illuminates Yuewan, but also you and the gentleman who voluntarily sacrificed. "

"Doctor, you are always so eloquent."

Shade praised, and Dr. Schneider shook his head, but there was a smile on his face.

"Justice, if, give me a ray of light?"

Shade looked down at his right hand, and at the same time, the fragmented stream of light gathered behind him into a holy emblem in the shape of a golden dragon head. Because Shade was sitting and the doctor was standing, Dr. Schneider only squinted slightly and saw this scene clearly.

But the "well-informed" doctor was not surprised, and didn't even say anything. He tried to blink his eyes, and the glowing circular emblem really disappeared from behind Shade.

The doctor folded his hands in front of his chest, raised his head slightly, and continued to look at the scenery on the other side of the Taton River under the bridge:

"What a peaceful day. Detective, I don't know what the weather was like when you first came to Yuewan, but such a legendary and beautiful story should end on such an ordinary but sunny day."

Miya's paw patted Shade's right hand, and it asked to continue stroking.

So Shade had to give up looking at his hand, and while stroking Miiya, he continued to look at Yuewan.

At the end of the construction bridge, they were just two black dots from a higher place, but Yuewan City, seen from a higher place, looked like a vibrant living thing. The sun shines on the city, and thousands of sails are anchored in the harbor. Perhaps the disaster will leave dark trauma, but as long as the light is still there, hope is still there.

"Whether I have given others light for life and the future, at least, I am a light in Mia's 'cat life'."

The stranger thought proudly in his heart, which was rare. One person continued to stand and the other continued to sit at the end of the bridge. They would probably stay here for a while before leaving.

A flock of pigeons flew over their heads, but only a small shadow flashed by.

The white pigeons flew over the pier, the Moon Bay Bridge, Herring Street, Spider Alley under the blue sky, and finally landed in groups of three or two on the upper edge of the dial on the terrace of Big Ben in Belindel.

Click~

The pointer turned to the next grid.

At the end of the bridge, it seemed that someone hugged Shade from behind, and the gentle voice of "her" came in the wind:

[Stranger, you have gained new strength. 】

(End of this volume)